From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How can I compare picture variables in metapost?
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 14:51:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A00366A.1040907@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <769ba7780905050527o4f42f9acod279bcce641189c@mail.gmail.com>
Zhichu Chen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to draw some paths that won't intersect with each other
> in metapost. Those paths are generated "randomly," e.g., draw
> 100 circles without any intersections. I use a very stupid
> way like:
I am probably missing something, because the fastest way to
draw 100 non-intersecting paths is just by having them in
a grid. You don't seem to want that, so: what do you want,
exactly? (be warned that "marble fill" is pretty hard).
Best wishes,
Taco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-05 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-05 12:27 Zhichu Chen
2009-05-05 12:51 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2009-05-05 13:51 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-05-05 15:04 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-05-05 15:19 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-05-05 16:06 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-05-05 16:54 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-05-05 21:42 ` Peter Rolf
2009-05-05 23:28 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-05-06 1:46 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-05-06 2:10 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-05-06 3:09 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-05-06 9:06 ` Peter Rolf
2009-05-05 22:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
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